this post was submitted on 20 Nov 2023
206 points (88.1% liked)

World News

38861 readers
2460 users here now

A community for discussing events around the World

Rules:

We ask that the users report any comment or post that violate the rules, to use critical thinking when reading, posting or commenting. Users that post off-topic spam, advocate violence, have multiple comments or posts removed, weaponize reports or violate the code of conduct will be banned.

All posts and comments will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. This means that some content that violates the rules may be allowed, while other content that does not violate the rules may be removed. The moderators retain the right to remove any content and ban users.


Lemmy World Partners

News !news@lemmy.world

Politics !politics@lemmy.world

World Politics !globalpolitics@lemmy.world


Recommendations

For Firefox users, there is media bias / propaganda / fact check plugin.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/media-bias-fact-check/

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 56 points 11 months ago (2 children)

That seems really low to me for a global number, especially given how trans people are criminalized and villified in so many countries.

[–] ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The villification is why the reported numbers are so low.

So many of us are robbed of our identity in death.

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 11 points 11 months ago (1 children)

That's a good point, thanks to deadnaming, this number could be VASTLY under-reported.

[–] ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 11 months ago

And even when they get it right, if they don't explicitly have something to flag the person as trans, then the data doesn't get accounted for in crime statistics.

And speaking as a trans person, the last people I want to know that I'm transgender are the police, so even self under-reporting could be a factor

[–] pbanj@lemmy.ml 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Ya, my first thought was "wow i thought it would be much higher". Glad it's not though.

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

That's what I was thinking... "Man, even for the US that seems low... wait, GLOBALLY?"